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Timnit Gebru’s team at Google is going public with their side of the story

The Verge

Gebru sent an email to the Brain Women and Allies listserv at Google detailing the pushback she’d gotten on the paper. “You’re not going to have papers that make the company happy all the time and don’t point out problems,” she said. That’s antithetical to what it means to be that kind of researcher.”.

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Google reportedly asked employees to ‘strike a positive tone’ in research paper

The Verge

Advances in technology and the growing complexity of our external environment are increasingly leading to situations where seemingly inoffensive projects raise ethical, reputational, regulatory or legal issues,” the policy read. A senior manager also instructed researchers to “strike a positive tone” in a paper this summer.

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TechSoup Global Goes to Congress (Again)

Tech Soup

We administrate the Refurbisher Listserv. IT discards that find their way in to landfills have toxics in them that poison our environment. We can improve the environment, create jobs, and provide a substantial social good. Several of our global partners operate similar programs. We have participated in a U.S. are reused.

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Information: The Better Half of IT

sgEngage

Our environment is telling us how important our data is by how hard we work to protect it. There are grassroots groups on social media, listservs, and informal peer groups for users of various Blackbaud products. Data fuels most activities in a nonprofit. How do I harness my data?

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John Kenyon's Aussie Adventure

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

John posted a marvelous report on the NTEN listservs about what he learned. Australian nonprofits also operate in a funding environment that is much more similar to the environment in the UK than in the US, with a major part of funding coming from the government and less from individual contributors.

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More Facebook and Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The resulting discussion thread on the progressive exchange listserv prompted some reflections on how nonprofits can effectively use Facebook. All of that is important to the relationships we want to have with those who care about wildlife and the environment. Nonprofits can use groups). Isn't that what social networking is all about?

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How You Can Participate in United We Serve This Summer

Have Fun - Do Good

To better our communities in 4 priority issue areas: energy/environment, education, health care, and community renewal. Wicks and Monje outlined the 3 goals of United We Serve: To bolster civic engagement nationwide. They have toolkits available , and will be building more, to help you create your project.